Pickles vs Cucumbers

MrsHyland

I have a question. My jar of pickles says they have no calories. I look them up on here and the database says 5 calories or something like that. I don't understand the discrepancy there. But my real question is: If pickles have 0 calories, then why do cucumbers have 16 or 32 or something like that? That is what I find in the database. Does pickling really take out calories? If so, I'm only eating pickled food from now on :laugh: Any insight on this would be helpful. Thanks so much!

Meghan

Madholm

Good question, but the zero calorie pickles I've had were also like 1/8th the size of the cucumber I was eating. Probably something to do with the pickling process. I have sliced pickles that do have calories, but they are a different 'flavor' of pickle.

tommygirl15

I had pickles the other day and the jar said there were 4 calories for half a pickle (these ones were jumbo size). Cucumbers do have calories and those calories don't just get washed away by a bunch of brine (IMO anyways).

JessyJ03

Cucumbers are VERY low in calories... you can eat a whole cucumber for like 15-25 calories. So I assume the pickles are so small the calorie count isn't significant enough to matter.

MrsHyland

Thanks for the input. I guess it makes sense that because it is small it would have a negligible amount of calories. I was kind of hoping I could pickle some pizza and eat all I wanted :happy: I guess not :brokenheart:

I still don't completely understand but I guess I will leave it filed under the complex questions I probably won't ever understand like the chicken or the egg debate and popcorn serving sizes.

Thank you all again for your help. Good luck to you on this journey!:flowerforyou:

Hearts_2015

Thanks for the input. I guess it makes sense that because it is small it would have a negligible amount of calories. I was kind of hoping I could pickle some pizza and eat all I wanted :happy: I guess not :brokenheart:

I still don't completely understand but I guess I will leave it filed under the complex questions I probably won't ever understand like the chicken or the egg debate and popcorn serving sizes.

Thank you all again for your help. Good luck to you on this journey!:flowerforyou:

You could eat jars of pickles and keep the cals low but the sodium would put you over for weeks! Love pickles hate the sodium part, so I don't eat pickles much anymore.

MsNewBooty83

Thanks for the input. I guess it makes sense that because it is small it would have a negligible amount of calories. I was kind of hoping I could pickle some pizza and eat all I wanted :happy: I guess not :brokenheart:

I still don't completely understand but I guess I will leave it filed under the complex questions I probably won't ever understand like the chicken or the egg debate and popcorn serving sizes.

Thank you all again for your help. Good luck to you on this journey!:flowerforyou:

haha if that was the case id pickle everything!!!!
i eat pickled eggs and beets like theyre going out of style!
the eggs r the same for calorie counts, im not sure on the beets, but its only 15cals for 4 slices.

ggcat

The type of cucumbers used for pickles are different than the cucumbers used for cucumbers...plus I agree with the size difference as well!

Mokey41

Because manufacturers are allowed to use zero calories if the calories are below a certain level per certain weight. A whole cucumber is above the measurement while a small pickle or slices of pickle fall under so they can say zero calories. Same thing with those butter sprays. They just make the measurement they use on the package small enough that they can list it as zero.

Edit: Finally found my reference. If they can have a measurement that has less than 5 calories they can label it as 0. So your pickle is less than 5 calories but it isn't zero because all food has calories, except water if you want to call it food.